Her Story
About Kathleen
I work as a loan broker and real estate investor, specializing in property acquisitions, wholesaling, and lending other people's money. My typical day involves acquisitions of properties, working as part of a team, and loaning out other people's money when appropriate under my broker company. I also spend time on phone calls and working on my projects. I'm currently enrolled in a Sub 2 education program with Pace Morby and have been working with Always Capital, which educates their associates and affiliates. My background includes working in education, trucking, sales, and currently bird dogging and wholesaling. What drives me most is my work creating the Magnolia Farms Foundation, a farm for those with developmental disabilities. This is my most notable achievement because it's not about me - while we make money, it's not entirely focused on that, it's about serving somebody else. My education background in elementary education, music, Spanish, and early childhood gives me diversity to deal with other people and their cultural backgrounds, which helps me work with individuals with developmental disabilities who teach me about patience every day.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Kathleen
01What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Balance. I know people who want to climb the corporate ladder, and that's fine, but balance. The job will always be there for you - it might not be the corporation that will be there for you, but the job will always be there for you. You work to live, not live to work. And it's a balance, because sometimes you have to live to work, but the whole goal of working is to work to live. Your family, your friends, and the things that you can't put a price on - the most important things that we have are relationships with others, whether it be in business or whether it be with our families. And it's a balancing act for all of it. There's times and seasons for everything. If you're an empty nester and you have time, and that's something you want to do, go to it, spend all your time if you want to. But when you're young, you're a young parent, you have little kids, those are the most important things in this life. You will not be able to replace the time, the energy, and those sweet, cute, cutie patooties. Because once it's gone, it's gone.
02What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Integrity is the most important value to me. If you don't have integrity in your business, you don't have a business. I don't care what brand you are, I don't care who you are. If you cannot be honest about the things that you do, and being able to be honest when no one else is looking, or doing the things you should when no one else is looking, you're not going to win in the end. And you're not a business that at least I want to deal with. You gotta be honest. I'm more about common sense and logic. Beyond business integrity, I value relationships with others - those are the things you can't put a price on. I believe in treating people with developmental disabilities like human beings that have abilities and dreams that just need to be assisted a little bit to achieve those. They care about people, they care about love, they care about connection - something our society really lacks right now. I also value learning from history and culture, because if you study history, you can learn something about a person, a culture, a place, their thinking. When we study people and history and cultures, we can avoid the mistakes others have made and we can make things better.
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